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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7333784" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>With Starfinder there are two armor classes KAC and EAC, I think there should be three. I would have KAC, EAC, and just AC. AC takes care of every weapon that is not a firearm which is in the D&D player's Handbook or the Pathfinder Core Rulebook if you prefer. EAC is for Energy weapons such as lasers for instance, and KAC is restricted to projectiles fired from guns, whether pistols or rifles. I don't know why Starfinder lumps in KAC with just AC. I think a suit of full plate male should be able to deflect a swords blow or an arrow fired from a bow a lot better than a bullet fired from a rifle. Thus I think a suit of plate mail and other armor types should have an AR of 8, a KAR of 4 and maybe an EAR of 2, does that sound reasonable? Now to explain things AR stands for Armor Rating, Armor Rating is a Component of Armor Class (AC) before you add things like Dexterity bonus and size to create the AC of a character, KAR is the Kinetic Armor Rating against high speed projectiles fired from guns, and that goes into KAC, and EAR is the Energy Armor Rating against energy weapons, which is those weapons that fire a beam of energy at the target, this goes into EAC or Energy Armor class. That is the house rule I would modify D20 Modern/Future with. This makes modern firearms more effective against armor than D&D melee and missile weapons and also makes energy weapons superior to weapons that fire bullets. D20 Modern treated all weapons the same regardless of whether they were swords, rifles or laser weapons, and I think the game needs that correction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7333784, member: 6925649"] With Starfinder there are two armor classes KAC and EAC, I think there should be three. I would have KAC, EAC, and just AC. AC takes care of every weapon that is not a firearm which is in the D&D player's Handbook or the Pathfinder Core Rulebook if you prefer. EAC is for Energy weapons such as lasers for instance, and KAC is restricted to projectiles fired from guns, whether pistols or rifles. I don't know why Starfinder lumps in KAC with just AC. I think a suit of full plate male should be able to deflect a swords blow or an arrow fired from a bow a lot better than a bullet fired from a rifle. Thus I think a suit of plate mail and other armor types should have an AR of 8, a KAR of 4 and maybe an EAR of 2, does that sound reasonable? Now to explain things AR stands for Armor Rating, Armor Rating is a Component of Armor Class (AC) before you add things like Dexterity bonus and size to create the AC of a character, KAR is the Kinetic Armor Rating against high speed projectiles fired from guns, and that goes into KAC, and EAR is the Energy Armor Rating against energy weapons, which is those weapons that fire a beam of energy at the target, this goes into EAC or Energy Armor class. That is the house rule I would modify D20 Modern/Future with. This makes modern firearms more effective against armor than D&D melee and missile weapons and also makes energy weapons superior to weapons that fire bullets. D20 Modern treated all weapons the same regardless of whether they were swords, rifles or laser weapons, and I think the game needs that correction. [/QUOTE]
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